licenselynx 2.1.1

Deterministically map license strings to its canonical identifier

LicenseLynx for Python

To use LicenseLynx in Python, you can call the map method from the LicenseLynx module to map a license name to its canonical form. The return value is an object with the canonical name and the source of the license.

Installation

To install the library, run following command:

pip install licenselynx 

Usage

from licenselynx.licenselynx import LicenseLynx

# Map the license name
license_object = LicenseLynx.map("licenseName")

print(license_object.id)
print(license_object.src)

# Map the license name with risky mappings enabled
license_object = LicenseLynx.map("licenseName", risky=True)

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause).

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